Out of Context Podcast Quotes"The average person can't change the design of a skyscraper, but there are small fixes that can make your home bird-safe." - ROMAN MARS, Murder Most Fowl, 99% Invisible #99PercentInvisible #99pi #SkyscraperDay #RomanMars
"When I visited, the tallest skyscraper downtown was completely abandoned, windows blown out by a hurricane." - EMMETT FITZGERALD, Unbuilding the Terrace, Not Built For This #SkyscraperDay #EmmettFitzgerald
"They just look like a different kind of urbanization than the skyscrapers around them." - ROMAN MARS, Art Imitates Art, 99% Invisible #99PercentInvisible #99pi #SkyscraperDay #RomanMars
"It's such a huge city that you could see skyscrapers like 10 miles away, and on the other side you can die looking at them." - ALEX ZHAROV, In the Shadow of the City, This American Life #TAL #ThisAmericanLife #IntheShadowoftheCity #SkyscraperDay #AlexZharov
settimaPetit à petit [Little by Little] (Jean Rouch, 1970)
Sep
3
Skyscraper Day
Damouré (Damouré Zika) measures a Parisian with craniology callipers. No skyscraper in this still, but there's scaffolding. DP: Jean Rouch.
A skyscraper for Skyscraper Day (USA)
In the sequel to Rouch's Jaguar (1967), Damouré wants a high rise for his Niger business with “as many floors as he has wives”. He decides to travel to Paris to learn about the construction of such building, and what made Paris to the Paris of today. While there, he gets distracted by the peculiarities of the French natives. Worried about Damouré's increasingly puzzling postcards, his company sends out Lam (Lam Ibrahim Dia) to bring him home.
#Bales2025FilmChallenge #SkyscraperDay #skyscrapers #JeanRouch #DamouréZika #LamIbrahimDia #IlloGoudal #SafiFaye #ArianeBruneton #JacquesChabot #MoustaphaAlassane #ethnography #drama #comedy #satire #Paris #France #Niger #1970's
"It revolutionized the design of skyscrapers, schools, and office buildings." - ROMAN MARS, Thermal Delight, 99% Invisible #99PercentInvisible #99pi #ThermalDelight #SkyscraperDay #RomanMars
Cute CalendarSep 3: Today is Skyscraper Day! https://www.cute-calendar.com/44678 #SkyscraperDay
Assoc for Scottish Literature“the word Metropolis – even as I type it here I feel it – stirs my blood”
Concrete Poetry & the Glasgow High Rises: Greg Thomas looks at how Glasgow’s post-war high-rise construction gave ‘concrete poetry’ its most site-specific connotation for Edwin Morgan
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#Scottish #literature #Glasgow #poem #poetry #ConcretePoetry #Skyscraper #SkyscraperDay #highrise
‘I am Iron Bard’: Edwin Morgan, Concrete Poetry and the Glasgow High Rises - The Bottle Imp
In 1964, Edwin Morgan wrote a concrete poem in homage to the nineteenth-century engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, a bridge-shaped graphic verse probably intended to mimic Brunel’s design for the Clifton Suspension Bridge. The piece was created for a special, Brunel-themed issue of the little magazine Link, an important forum for the early circulation of concrete […]
The mile-high buildings flashed, flushed, greyed, went dark,
greyed, flushed, flashed, chameleons under flak
of cloud and sun…
—Edwin Morgan, “Clydegrad”
CENTENARY SELECTED POEMS, Carcanet 2020
Today, 3 September, is Skyscraper Day
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https://www.carcanet.co.uk/9781784109967/centenary-selected-poems/
#Scottish #literature #Glasgow #poem #poetry #ConcretePoetry #Skyscraper #SkyscraperDay
LyndaOggi, 3 settembre, celebriamo storia, eleganza e piccoli piaceri: dai grattacieli scintillanti alla dolcezza del Welsh Rarebit, passando per momenti storici indimenticabili. 🌞📜
#3settembre #storiaedizione #buongiorno #perfettamentechic #skyscraperday #welshrarebitday #giornatastorica #buonrisveglio #storiaemagia #momentiechic
http://perfettamentechic.com/2025/09/03/3-settembre-storia-eleganza-e-piccoli-piaceri-di-giornata/
